If you’re going to drive around in a solar-powered vehicle, you might as well make it a snazzy one. Enter the Terrestrial Shrub Rover, a solar-powered vehicle that looks, as you may have guessed, exactly like a large shrub.

According to Shull, “In the spirit of NASA and its forthcoming 2020 lunar expeditions in preparation for colonizing the moon, the Terrestrial Shrub Rover presents the opportunity to explore terrestrial and social environments back on Earth from within a manned, foliage bedecked, solar electric powered rover.”

The shrub rover doesn’t have a windshield. It does, however, have video screens and a control unit for the driver. And a second version, currently under development, will be remote-controlled via webcam. It goes without saying that if Shull ever puts the rover on sale we’ll be first in line!

It’s easy… the sun provides energy to plants, photosynthesis occurs and they grow. They get eaten by animals and small dinosaurs, then larger dinsaurs eat the smaller dinosaurs. Eventually, they all die, and the sun once again lends a helping hand to cause them to decompose. Hundreds of millions of years later, underground pockets filled with fossil fuels are exploited to remove and process the surrounding natural gas, rendering it usable in natural gas electric generation plants. These plants generate electricity that is shipped to the the terrestrial rover via “extension cord” which charges its batteries. Le voila… solar powered electric (shrub) car!